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EXCLUSIVE – How Trump’s Crypto Venture and Iran’s Top Exchange Tapped Into the Same...

By Tom Wilson and Gavin Finch LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - When customers of Iran’s largest crypto exchange needed to move billions of dollars, networks created by two of the industry’s biggest players served as conduits. And from the early stages of President Donald Trump’s flagship digital...

Stocks Rise on Lower Oil Prices, Though Iran Conflict Clouds Outlook

By Lawrence Delevingne and Lucy Raitano BOSTON/LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Friday after recent heavy selling, helped by lower oil prices, although uncertainty over the Iran war continues to disrupt energy supplies which is driving concerns...
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Chinese Ships Halt Attempt to Exit Hormuz Despite Iran Safe Passage Assurances

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) / WooGlobe via Reuters Connect Two Chinese container ships turned backed after trying to exit the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, ship-tracking data showed, despite...

US Treasury Chief Says Businesses Working With Iranian Airlines Risk Sanctions

https://kayhanlife.com/authors/iran-war-spurs-travel-dollar-black-market-linked-to-smuggling-rings/ By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Businesses working with Iranian airlines risk U.S. sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday, calling the warning a part of a campaign to put economic pressure on Tehran amid...

Trump Says War Is ‘Very Complete’ – Iran Has Other Ideas

Reuters: A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the White House has ominously declared...

Iran’s Economic Crisis Hits Women Hardest As They Suffer Mass Layoffs

By Kayhan Life Staff Women in the workplace in Iran are suffering mass layoffs because of the prolonged internet shutdown in Iran -- now into its third month -- and the ongoing war. Traditional views about...

ANALYSIS: Iran’s Hormuz Gamble Ushers In A Tense New Normal For the Persian Gulf...

By Ron Bousso LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - The Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have shattered a status quo that prevailed among Middle East oil and gas producers for decades. Even if the current, shaky ceasefire holds, the...

Bessent Urges More Disruption to Iran’s Financing, Will Review US Sanctions List

By David Lawder PARIS, May 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday called on allies to more forcefully disrupt Iran's financing networks and said the Treasury would scrub its sanctions list of outdated designations to...

US Imposes New Sanctions on Iranian Exchange House, Shadow Fleet Vessels

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an Iranian foreign currency exchange house and what it said were front companies overseeing transactions on behalf of Iranian banks as the U.S. maintains pressure...

ANALYSIS – The Iran War Has Revealed Trump’s Pressure Point: The Economy

By Matt Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - Seven weeks of war have failed to topple Iran’s theocratic rulers or force them to meet all of President Donald Trump's demands, but for U.S. adversaries and...